KJV ONLY

[withwonderingawe]

I and a small group of Mormons are watching a video on Facebook with two Christian men. I'm sorry I don't know their names. When I get to my regular computer I'll look them up, one is named White I think. Anyway they are discussing the issue of using the KJV only and one said he felt it was the inerrant word of God and all others were evil, not his exact words. Do other Christians feel the same way?

 

[Targaryen]

No, in fact I look at KJVO's pretty heterodoxical, but that's mostly cause their theology is pretty outlandish.

 

[High Fidelity]

It's a very small community that are King James Only.

Trying to convince them otherwise is about as successful as getting blood from a stone. I just smile and move along now.

 

[withwonderingawe]

No, in fact I look at KJVO's pretty heterodoxical, but that's mostly cause their theology is pretty outlandish.

What makes their theology different?

 

[Adstar]

I and a small group of Mormons are watching a video on Facebook with two Christian men. I'm sorry I don't know their names. When I get to my regular computer I'll look them up, one is named White I think. Anyway they are discussing the issue of using the KJV only and one said he felt it was the inerrant word of God and all others were evil, not his exact words. Do other Christians feel the same way?

I trust in the KJV Bible..

 

[2PhiloVoid]

I and a small group of Mormons are watching a video on Facebook with two Christian men. I'm sorry I don't know their names. When I get to my regular computer I'll look them up, one is named White I think. Anyway they are discussing the issue of using the KJV only and one said he felt it was the inerrant word of God and all others were evil, not his exact words. Do other Christians feel the same way?

I don't feel this way. I like the NKJV and the NASB. And there are a few other translations that I'm sure are good too.

 

[Lukaris]

There have been so many later English translations, since the later 19th c. (I think), some are good & others not. The KJV is always reliable but some are finding it difficult to understand as language changes. There is a New King James translation from 1979 which is decent.

 

[Targaryen]

It tends to be dispensationalist, intentionally dividing biblical history into periods such as the following:

The dispensations

1. the dispensation of innocence (or freedom), (Gen. 2:8-17,25), prior to Adam's fall,
2. of conscience, (Gen. 3:10-18; Rom. 2:11-15), Adam to Noah,
3. of government, (Gen. 9:6; Rom. 13:1), Noah to Abraham,
4. of patriarchal rule (or promise), (Gen. 12:1-3; 22:17-18; Gal. 3:15-19), Abraham to Moses,
5. of the Mosaic Law, (Ex. 20:1-26; Gal. 3:19), Moses to Christ,
6. of grace, (Rom. 5:20-21; Eph. 3:1-9), the current church age, and
7. of a literal earthly 1,000 year Millenial Kingdom that has yet to come but soon will, (Is. 9:6-7; 11:1-9; Rev. 20:1-6).

As such, it tend to allow "prophecy" to be endowed into their reading of the Bible to apply this principle, and thus you get the rather heterodoxical "teaching" of the Rapture. It also is a form of prophecy that IMO, has never been proven correct and tends to cast most of the teaching of Christ out the window in favor of preparing for a Rapture that will never come, or the Second Coming ,where it's even said in the bible we will not know the day or the hour of His return.

Also another point is that the KJV itself is a work that relied on older versions of the bible,such as the Latin Vulgate to come into being. It also contrary to popular opinion is not the first English Bible. If you don't count Wycliffe's Bible, the first commissioned Bible was The Great Bible of 1539.

 

[Hieronymus]

KJV is a good Bible, but not without flaws.
People are trying to get it right and release new translations, which is a good thing.

 

[possibletarian]

I know you asked Christians this...
But in the debates I have seen few say it's wrong to use the K.J.V., rather the opinion is it's wrong to insist on K.J.V only. Many people who only use the K.J.V. are not against other versions it's just a preference.

I found the debate with James White and Jack Moorman interesting too

 

[bling]

When the King James version was first translated they had only the Latin translation to work with and translations that were made from the Latin to English. Later translations went back to the original Greek, which helped with the understanding of the Latin translation. Any translation done by a group of Greek Scholars with peer review is good, but sometimes you might even go back to the Greek to know all the alternative uses of a word.
English word meanings have changed over time, so to use the KJV you might need to know Victorian English.

 

[StTruth]

I and a small group of Mormons are watching a video on Facebook with two Christian men. I'm sorry I don't know their names. When I get to my regular computer I'll look them up, one is named White I think. Anyway they are discussing the issue of using the KJV only and one said he felt it was the inerrant word of God and all others were evil, not his exact words. Do other Christians feel the same way?

Hi withwonderingawe,

My grandpa told me to use the Authorised Version since my earliest years. And he's right. The KJV is written in the most beautiful language ever. Many of our English expressions come from the KJV and sometimes a misquotation of it. My literature teacher also tells us to read the KJV in order to be better at literature.

And it's not just literature. Students of language also will tell you that the KJV is normally used as an authority on various aspects of grammar by grammarians.

There is a lot of good in the KJV and I'd be wasting my time if I read other versions.

I have seen other versions of the Bible and some of them are horrendous. For example, the NASB is linguistically a disaster.

Sorry if I offended NASB lovers but I speak only the truth for I am...

St Truth

 

[withwonderingawe]

Thank you everyone. What I do is to go to Strong Bible Concordance, I have no idea who these people are but I use their lexicon. Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon so I can switch back and forth looking at several different rendition. However just to do my own reading I enjoy the words of the King James.